Unless he was STTN consistently, I wouldn't do 3-2 at this point. You want 1-0 very brief NFs somewhere in the 2-3 am hour and no extraneous NW for 3-2. He'll need the consolidated night sleep to tolerate the longer WTs.

If you push through and drop to 2 naps, be VERY conservative with TWT for a while. I'd even consider 2.5/3/2.5-3 at first.

Unless he was STTN consistently, I wouldn't do 3-2 at this point. You wan...

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10/28/2018

Unless he was STTN consistently, I wouldn't do 3-2 at this point. You want 1-0 very brief NFs somewhere in the 2-3 am hour and no extraneous NW for 3-2. He'll need the consolidated night sleep to tolerate the longer WTs.

If you push through and drop to 2 naps, be VERY conservative with TWT for a while. I'd even consider 2.5/3/2.5-3 at first.

What should I do about the nap fighting if I don’t drop nap 3?

He sleeps in his crib at night too. He wakes twice to eat. He usually sleeps while he is eating and right back in the crib after. He naps in the same crib during the day. No one is in there however and he’s alone.

What should I do about the nap fighting if I don’t drop nap 3?
He sleeps i...

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10/28/2018

What should I do about the nap fighting if I don’t drop nap 3?

He sleeps in his crib at night too. He wakes twice to eat. He usually sleeps while he is eating and right back in the crib after. He naps in the same crib during the day. No one is in there however and he’s alone.

Moving him to his own space where he cannot smell your milk will likely help nights. I'd work on one very brief NF around 2/3 am then no more. That would be an absolute before trying a 2-nap schedule IMHO. Is he waking on his own for the NFs?

If he still fights nap 3, you: 1. Push out the wt before nap 3 as far as you can2. Limit naps 1 and 2 so that he's tired enough for nap 33. Enforce crib time for 30ish minutes to help stretch him to bedtime. If the nap is completely refused, then you shift BT earlier to compensate. 4. Drop the NFs to a max of one very brief NF then work on 3-25. Get him falling asleep completely on his own and let ONS consolidate before pushing 3-2

Moving him to his own space where he cannot smell your milk will likely help ...

Posted
10/28/2018

Moving him to his own space where he cannot smell your milk will likely help nights. I'd work on one very brief NF around 2/3 am then no more. That would be an absolute before trying a 2-nap schedule IMHO. Is he waking on his own for the NFs?

If he still fights nap 3, you: 1. Push out the wt before nap 3 as far as you can2. Limit naps 1 and 2 so that he's tired enough for nap 33. Enforce crib time for 30ish minutes to help stretch him to bedtime. If the nap is completely refused, then you shift BT earlier to compensate. 4. Drop the NFs to a max of one very brief NF then work on 3-25. Get him falling asleep completely on his own and let ONS consolidate before pushing 3-2

To be completely honest he won’t be moving to his own space anytime soon. I have opened up here in another thread about it before but for traumatic (a death) reasons I’ll be room sharing for awhile. Just wanting to be up front about that when we are chatting about it so you have all the details.

He does wake up on his own to eat! He cries, goes back to sleep when I latch him, eats, back to the crib. I actually don’t think dropping night feeds will be an issue. I think they are mostly habitual wakings. They are always at the same time every night. 1:30am and 5:30am.

FWIW, he does fall asleep on his own at all times. All naps and bedtime and any random night waking he may have at some point on random nights. He will wake up and then roll back over and go to sleep usually. At bedtime and nap he is laid down wide awake and he rolls over and just goes to sleep usually right away except for the last few days. Today looked like this:

2.5 hr WT- down for 1.5 hours
2.5hr WT- 25 minute nap (he wouldn’t go back to sleep so I got him up for 30 minutes and then tried for a cat nap and he wasn’t having it)

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